http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1909316/why-does-this-program-need-msgbox

My program works, only it only works if you click on a dialog box for every loop. Apparently writing software that interfaces this deeply with Internet Explorer has the side-effect that your program spontaneously needs constant self-reassurance that it's OK.

If I've accidentally invented Needy AI, I apologize to the world and promise they will all rue the day.

You know, Power Girl would be a thousand times better if Kara were more like Veronica Palmer. Maybe not as Veronica Palmer as Veronica Palmer, but she appears like that to her employees. Everyone thinks Karen Starr is an insane CEO because she says things like, "I like the way your heart beats, that's the pulse of a hard worker," and, "I like the idea of a self-replicating nano virus, but I'm not sure if our target demographic includes Omnicidal Nihilistic Super-Scientists. Make the nanos break down after twelve hours. Then we won't be responsible for the end of humanity as we know it, and we'll sell more to them."

But, you know, I guess shoe shopping is fun too.

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I'm no Green Arrow fan, and I'm not about to say that the best thing that could ever happen to a character is to have their arm ripped off, but...if your codename is Arsenal and you're not packing some kind of cybernetic kill appendage, then you really should change your name to Red Arrow or something equally lame. As much as I like the theory of Roy Harper, it's always bugged me that he had a cool name like Arsenal but wasn't some tech-hero with a backpack full of components he could reconfigure into a plethora of weapons.

I just had a mouse run across my desk, come up and look at me, then wander around inside Kinetix for a second before doing his usual disappearing act.

I've never read any Terry Pratchett novels, but I really have an urge to put snacks and shredded paper in my server so my computer will have a rat's nest inside too.

This is what happens when we start letting comic book writers write movies: I can't find a place to legally digitally buy/rent Wanted. Not at iTunes, not at Amazon, and there's no linkage on the movie website. Comic writers are a Luddite force more powerful than the RIAA.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

Saying the Skrull virus disabled Extremis but left the improvements its made is like saying someone erased your hard drive completely but left the software patches. It's like saying Superman lost all his powers, but he can still fly. Tony hollowed out his bones to store Extremis, presumably because Extremis was handling a chunk of his bodily function. To say the changes Extremis made are still there but it's not doing anything means Tony's dead.

He no longer has the ability to make blood!

I wish Marvel would stop letting people who believe in junk science write Iron Man. First is was Orson Scott Card making every nerve in Ult. Tony's body the same kind of nerve tissue as the brain and then saying because of that change he was hyper-sensitive to pain, even though the brain doesn't feel pain the way nerve endings do. Then Warren Ellis came in with Extremis and its repair centers of the brain, completely disregarding HOW DNA WORKS for his story. Now Fraction wants us to believe that the system that gave Tony his powers is gone, but the changes it made are still there, even though those changes would kill him with Extremis to compensate for them.

"We managed to implant gills in your neck, but there's a big crack in your tank so it won't hold water. Good luck!"

Fraction's Iron Man, Palmiotti & Grey's Power Girl, and Simone's Oracle really, REALLY make me wonder about popular comic writers. It's like...I have to imagine they watch shows like Better Off Ted, Dilbert, Drawn Together, and The I.T. Crowd without realizing the insane shenanigans of character archetypes that go on are only funny because (a) in the first two you have the sane person (Ted, Dilbert) to gauge the craziness against, (b) in the latter two everyone's an idiot and the viewer is kind of rooting against them, and (c) THEY GET RESET EVERY WEEK. If comics were more like the Marvel Adventures line, self-contained and episodic, then you could get away with a status quo. You could have an Extremis armor one issue with the understanding Tony removed it, and the changes, at the end of the issue.

Here's the kicker, though, Fraction's won an Eisner. The other writers I've listed are wildly popular. Comic fans, despite their repeated use of phrases like "character development" and "continuity" don't want logical progressions. They want Hurt/Comform Porn. The bulk of people reading Iron Man couldn't care less about the junk science of my three examples, all they get out of those stories is:

1. Tony's always in pain, the poor drunk woobie.

2. Tony's badly hurt and internally bleeding, the poor guy.

3. Tony made his friends mad; now he's hurt, everyone's sad, and they're going to help him.

People complain about Michael Bay, but I guarantee if his talent were comics instead of movies, he'd win awards for his ability to string together emotionally stirring scenes that were devoid of any logical, interconnected progression, which is essentially what Fraction did.

Stargate Atlantis Home Theater

I'm just going to say, "Zomg!" and stare dreamily at those pictures.

I Am Not An Electrical Engineer, but I'm pretty sure that should be Shield to Tony, Tony to ground. Mind you, I'm basing this off an episode of Phineas and Ferb, where they were trying to jump start their rocket.

http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/How_to_upload_a_file_to_server_with_multipart/form-data

The best page I have ever seen for explaining how to build multipart/form-data posts.

I like this thread, but my favorite answer from Sturges so far is this: "I really hadn't imagined it [Power Girl's costume shredding] as a cheesecake moment at all; it just kind of turned out that way."

I've tried a couple of zingers to wrap this post up, but I think the comedy value of the quote stands on its own.